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The sound of gunfire first alerted Said Habib Sadat to trouble near Kabul’s Shah-Do Shamshira shrine. The 56-year-old furrier, who was making a sheepskin cap, heard the shots coming just a few feet from his store on the banks of the Kabul River. He went to the shrine and was shocked to see that the green railing above its outer walls had been toppled by a crowd of hundreds of young men screaming "God is great." Worshipers inside the shrine claimed to have captured a woman they said had been burning pages from the Koran, the Muslim holy book. One held charred pages over his head, Habib recalled. Shopkeepers said they saw the body of the woman, identified by only her...

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